Thrilling Action Pictures at Embassy Newsreel Theatre
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Thrilling Action Pictures at Embassy Newsreel Theatre This Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Mr. Shipley reviews each play on its opening night over WEVI) at 11:50 p. ra. LOVELY...
...Counterattack" is the second play out of Russia this season...
...not even the Crusaders, bound direct for Paradise, could have been so forbearing toward their enemies...
...The Russian People" may be excellent propaganda for production in Russia...
...Because this represents an unexpected increase in winter visitation, the Sunday visiting hours at the Statue of Liberty will be extended by one hour effective February 7. •TARZAN" AND "UFE" REMAIN AT PALACE The popularity of the combination...
...George Jessel, and Olsen and Johnson...
...HUNGARIANS PLUNDER CARPATHIAN RUSSIA By decree of the Hungarian Government 3,830 Jewish businessmen and tradesmen were deprived of the privilege of continuing their occupations...
...RHYTHM" TIES 7-WEEK RECORD AT PARAMOUNT "Star Spangled Rhythm" is in its seventh week at the New York Paramount...
...The Alvin benefit is being sponsored bv Michael Toed, and Alexander ffc Pincus- is donating the Theatre...
...Henry Fonda...
...But for soldiers that have come through a firce campaign (the scene is the Eastern Front, Autumn, 1942), that have smelt the foul contagion of rotting bodies, have seen their children slaughtered—this sweet smiling on the captured Nazis...
...This new decree affected only small trailer...
...Let us be bold to say that such life as this play might have had has been killed by the direction...
...Tarzan Triumphs" and "Life Begins At 8:30," currently at the RKO Palace has compelled the postponing of the opening of "Yankee Doodle Dandy" at this theatre...
...But when they got to the theatre, they could'nt go in . . . There was no place to leave the baby . . . JACK HALEY lunching at a window table in the English Grill while his nine-year-old son skates with Maxi-.ie Marx, daughter of Chico Marx, on the adjoining Rockefeller Plaza Ice Rink . . , INSIDE on George Raft's appearance or the "Radio Reader's Digest" show is that he wishes to prove to Hollywood he can handle other characterizations in addition to the "killer" roles which have been foisted on him . . . FOR that red white and blue feeling, attend a showing of "Commandos Strike at Dawn" at the Criterion, whict invariably has a sprinkling of Free Norwegians in the audience . . These soldiers stand up and sing their national anthem along wlti a group of school children who shout it in one scene...
...Counterattacks" may please those that wish to visualize Soviet soldiers as diamonds in the rough—even the dilettante communists that from American drawingrooms view the rosy new Soviet world...
...K?w YORK born Audrey Peppe, twice picked for the Olympic teass, a*d recently skating instructress in charge of ice revues at Sun Vallsj, has joined the cast of "Stars on Ice...
...Presented by Lee Sabinson at tke Windsor Theatre...
...LOVELY SOVIETS "COUNTERATTACK...
...H. V. Kaltenborn...
...At that point, the Nazis could so surely overpower the two Russians that the sudden awakening of the Soviets and their chasing back the prisoners is equally ludicrous...
...Notice was also sent to 1,190 businessmen in tin- district that they must forfeit their property and that, although they may continue operating only until the Hungarian citizens arrive, they must then surrender it...
...wood where she and Emily Kimbroogh...
...They are to try to discover which is the officer: and what he knows...
...The Soviet soldiers are fighting well, in a tough war...
...STARS IN BENEFIT FOR MOTOR SERVICE Additional stars who havi promised to appear in 'All-Star Convoy...
...his Swing: and Sway orchestra and revue featuring Tommy Ryan...
...This is all so managed as to destroy any sense of reality, and take the tenseness completely out of an originally promising situation...
...National Theatre Conference . . . The first being Maxwell Aadcr-son's The Eve of St...
...started talking to the man in front of her at 96th St...
...But, even granting the limitations of the stage, time and again the Germans crawl up so that even a man half-blind would have seen them, without the Soviet soldiers observing a thing...
...Maureen O'Hara and Thomas Mitchell are starred...
...the Russians are just placidly proud of their own superior ways...
...Jewish hghettos are particularly affected, and the death Jrate is tremendous, due to a lack of medical supplies and proper food...
...James Cagney's film portrayal of the life of Cohan Will begin its Palace engagement oue week later...
...Miniver," Greer Gar-son's hit of last summer which ran 10 weeks at the big playhouse, stands between "Random Harvest" and a new all-time record for attendance at the Music Hall...
...NINTH WEEK FOR HARVEST AT MUSIC HALL With attendance well beyond • the million mark for its run to date, "Random Harvest," co-starring Greer Garson and Ronald Colman...
...A small band of tough Australians lost in .the dense jungle of the lap held island, -fight on against the enemy...
...the Alvin Theatre on Sunday night...
...NAPLES BOMBED BY YANKS Thrilling action pictures Just received from the North African front headline the new show at all Embassy Newsreel Theatres...
...Let's Keep the Nazis Licked" by Carey Longmire is the newest issue'of "Your Ringside Seat" at all Embassy Theatres...
...one may but hazardously generalize from American versions of two Soviet plays...
...The only previous seventh weeker was "Road to Morocco...
...her collaborator hi the writing of the best selling "Oar Hearts Were Young and Gay" wjfl start work for Paramount on the film version of their popular base . PARAMOUNT has pet fifty grand on the line for it . .. CHAZ CHASE who has joined Mitchel Todd's "Star and Garter" a hit hit . . . The little comic has the customers rolling in the aisles LEMEL AYRES will design the settings, and Miles White tie costumes, for the Theatre Guild's "Green Grow the Lilacs...
...Just about the hottest thing of all is the problem of post war planning...
...N i 4 Global War News: Lost Aussies fight on Timor...
...A good situation...
...also remains for a second week...
...IMMORTAL SERGEANT" STAYS AT THE ROXY The 20th Century-Fox film adaptation of John Brophy's best seller, "Immortal Sergeant," holds over for a second week at the Roxy Theatre...
...No end to Ronald (»?' Jupiter) Graham's versatility . . . The B'way heart throb has u exhibit of backstage drawings in the lounge of the Shubert Theatre . . . SONJA HENIE points out that if you feed a servant like oat of the family, she'll resent it . . . ED SULLIVAN and his big nTM a solid click at Loews State . . . COLUMBIA has borrowed George Sanders from Twentieth Centary Fox for the lead in "Appointment in Berlin...
...Isn't there an honest, human play someone can bring out of Russia...
...since large films were taken over by the Hungarians immediately after the Hungarian occupation or this section of the Czechoslovak Republic...
...The A.W.VJ5...
...Red sappers tunnel under Hun trench and blast enemy to bits...
...BROADWAY ECHOES By Don McCloud THE National Theatre Conference to produce Sidney kiafile}', The Patriots'* throughout the country immediately .. . Thfe fc fU second playwrights' production which has been taken over hj th...
...Two Soviet privates—farmer and miner—are left in a bomb shelter in charge of seven German soldiers and a Nazi nurse...
...this polishing of his boots in the bombshelter, while the Nazis creep on: such conduct is just not human...
...A typhus epidemic is raging in Sub-Car-pahia and is spreading alarmingly...
...Mote.' Transport Service will present fcr...
...we are glad of their victories...
...With the new Johnny Weissmuller jungle -t hriller and the comedy-drama co-starring * Ida Lupino ard Monty \Voole> holding over a second week...
...the gala benefit performance which the A.W.V.S...
...Then a bomb entombs them: two with weapons...
...V . . ,_V . . —V . . Longer Working Hours At Statue of Liberty The Statue of Liberty was visited by 10,181 people during the month of January, according to official National Park Service travel figures, Superintendent George A. Palmer announced today...
...are Sophie Tucker...
...Their licenses were turned over to new Hungarian settlers who, in this perfectly "lcyral" manner, took over the property of the Jews...
...In addition, the stage show features DorPCummings, Musical Comedy Star, and Chris Crosi and "Looie", novelty act...
...Benny Fields...
...But, as the businessman remarks in the next night's opening, "I can't call you a Communist, because that would be unpatriotic...
...Their benign goodness is almost mealy-mouthed...
...here, it is just an elementary bore...
...seven with a will to take command...
...enters it ninth week at the Radio City Music Hall February 11th...
...The new Roxy stage revue headlining Connec Boswell...
...this mellowing to the nurse (who, when her attention is called to the Soviet farmer's wounded hand, says "Let him spit on it...
...the Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street with Paul Lavalle and his Orchestra, Milton Cross, and Herb Shriner...
...Mark...
...Nancy Norman, Arthur Wright, Billy Williams, the 3 Kaydets and the Kaye choir hold over for a 4th week...
...The film states a lot of hot political questions due to be debated this year in America...
...CORNELIA Otis Skinner in le...
...Giant U. S. Liberator bombers roar into the air and head for Naples in Italy und plaster harbor with many direct bits...
...Only -Mrs...
...Other American bombers strike smashing blows at Sousse in Tunisia, as the Nazis get smacked from two sides.: General Doolittle commands, action...
...Russian tide keeps rolling over Nazis in the Caucasus...
...and married him at 59th St...
...V . . .—V . . .—V . . CLARK GABLE'S autograph the most sought after by all autograph hourTds , . . SUSAN MILLER late of "Beat the Band" go* into the Persian Room of the Plaza . . . PHIL BAKER, the "Take It Or Leave It" quizmaster, to take another fling in pictures . . . JOHN MURRAY ANDERSON "Zielfeld Follies" director . . . Says that comedienne Sue Ryan, who is scoring so heavily in the show, ig a composite of Fannie Brice and Bea Lillie . . . That is some compliment coming from a man like Anderson . . . DON AMECHE to hav« a program of his own when he leaves the Edgar Bergen-Charlie McCarthy Air Show . . . PAUL HARTMAN claims he knows a girl who got on line for the Music Hall at 110th St...
...It equals a longevity-record set by only one other attraction in the theatre's sixteen year history...
...The Soviets have a letter taken from a Nazi: he writes that at last he has clothes for the baby, but his wife may have to dye them if the blood won't wash out—and it is the Nazi nurse that is horrified...
...Motor transport is the organization which traas-ports all entertainers to and from their performances at Army and Navy posts...
...FOURTH WEEK FOR KAYE AT NEW YORK STRAND Sammy Kaye...
...Or don't the communists let us know that they too are merely men ? It is in the realm of the "merely man" that drama—and all things worthwhile—must grow...
...got engaged to him at 72nd St...
...But (whatever must be done in dramas for home consumption, Soviet education, Soviet morale) our theatre is grownup: why insult our playgoers with figures that look less like men grimly battling in a fierce and desperate strife than a composite photograph of Grace Darling and Sir Galahad...
...Will the United States settle back into its old isolationist shell, or will we join the British, the Russians and the Chinese, in a United Police force and help keep the peace after the war...
...In person Johnny Long and his orchestra remain as do Moke and Poke, the Radio Rogues and Frank Sinatra, the extra added attraction...
...conversely, there are those to whom everything Russian is right...
...Nonetheless, one feature emerges: the Russian likes to idealize the Russian beyond all human realities...
...ace screen journalist and war news analyst, headlines the new program appearing in the latest release of his popular weekly series "Kaltenborn Edits the News...
...Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour, among the 43 stars in "Star Spangled Rhythm" played the stellar roles in "Morocco...
...By Janet and Philip Stevenson, from the Russian Ilya Vershinin and Mikhail Ruderman...
Vol. 26 • February 1943 • No. 7
